Small Town Prosecutor

<p>In the late 20th and early 21st centuries Bob Simpson a former Vermont prosecutor worked with police and other prosectors to bring evidence of murder attempted murder kidnapping and sexual abuse before more than a dozen juries. In 1981 two teenagers raped and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Maple Street Park. In 1982 two men bludgeoned a rowdy bar patron and left him for dead in the Winooski River. In Barre a man pleaded insanity after fatally shooting his downstairs neighbor because he always had it in his head to kill someone. Simpson details the prosecutions of a pedophilic priest a violent cult a cleaver-wielding assailant and other brutal and tragic offenders who brought incalculable pain and suffering to their communities. Amongst all these devastating stories however is the one of hope: Vermont juries delivering justice and shaping the system we rely on today.</p>